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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16h

NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

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Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief

On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 2d

The age of failing upwards/learning to parse truth from propaganda: 40 years of climate change disinfo has kept my skills sharp so not worried, just disappointed. ground.news/article/free...

Free Press founder Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News after deal with Paramount

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, as part of a deal to acquire the online news site she founded, The Free Press.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, folks, please check out the new Drawdown Explorer.

It’s the world’s leading resource for science-backed climate solutions. And now it provides the most up-to-date, localized, actionable intelligence to help scale these solutions out in the world.

Drawdown.org/explorer

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 6d

There's a severe shortage of gas turbines globally. Wait times have gone up from 2 years to 5 years or more. AI companies are willing to pay any price to get their hands on them.

Is that a climate blessing or curse? Our global investigation has an answer.

🎁link
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch

Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.

www.bloomberg.com

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 8d

A torrent of Oceans from this wknd (damn it’s been a busy couple days).

Find community wherever you can. With the Fisker Owners Association it has been amazing sharing and collaborating on service, upgrades and even our own app environment.

Still lb-4-lb the best EV that is no longer on the market

Seven Fisker Oceans for the NJ owners association gathering.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 11d

India on track to add more than 45 GW of solar in fiscal 2026 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/24/i... - good news from #India and much more solar PV ahead: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

India on track to add more than 45 GW of solar in fiscal 2026

India installed 18 GW of solar in the first five months of fiscal 2026 and is projected to exceed 45 GW for the year, with rooftop and open-access systems driving growth alongside tax cuts and expandi...

www.pv-magazine.com

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 11d

Never alone

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WE ARE

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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 12d

India adds 4.8GW solar cell capacity to ALMM list-II #energysky -- via pv-tech:

India adds 4.8GW solar cell capacity to ALMM list-II

The Indian government has added 4.8GW of annual solar cell nameplate capacity to its Approved List of Models and Manufacturers List-II.

www.pv-tech.org

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12d

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.

It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.

Via @heatmap.news

How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart

The administration argued in the name of national defense — but Orsted had receipts.

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 13d

⚡️🤯⚡️!

Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting topic hosted by @akshatrathi.bsky.social at @bloomberg.com and cool passing remarks too. Globally 39% of two and three wheelers and 43% of buses are already electric. And DYK Ethiopia (which has plentiful hydro power) already bans the import of gas powered cars? youtu.be/VaBEWJrRS0M?...

The extraordinary rise of electric cars in developing countries | Zero: The Climate Race

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 14d

However, the US has ambitious alternative aviation fuel targets, but still allows that fuel to be made from food crops like corn or soy, which would increase emissions relative to using conventional jet fuel. Our analysis: the US should not turn food into aviation fuel. www.wri.org/research/uni...

WRI expert note: The United States should not turn food into aviation fuel
Dan Lashof and Audrey Denvir

Summary Emissions from domestic aviation are responsible for 3 percent of annual US greenhouse gas output and are expected to increase by 2–3 percent per year through midcentury unless the course is corrected. In contrast, emissions from ground transportation are expected to decline as vehicles become more efficient and are increasingly electrified. Aircraft efficiency is improving, but not fast enough to keep up with increasing air travel. While some short-haul flights can be replaced with high-speed rail and could possibly be electrified in the future, most of the emissions reductions needed from aviation through midcentury will have to be achieved through alternative liquid fuels—also known as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—or compensated for through carbon dioxide removal. Not all alternatives to petroleum jet fuel reduce the environmental impact of air travel, and they often have unwanted side effects. For example, diverting soybeans and corn from food and feed markets to make fuel—currently the leading approaches to producing alternative jet fuel in the United States—harms consumers by driving up food prices (Malins 2023) and leads to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and emissions from land-use change. Federal and state support for alternatives to petroleum jet fuel should focus on approaches that avoid the conflict between food and fuel production by using waste biomass, carbon captured from the atmosphere, and clean hydrogen as feedstocks for SAF. Technologies such as biomass gasification, Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis, and electrofuels (e-fuels) made from clean hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide are nascent but have the potential to produce truly sustainable aviation fuel (Energy Institute 2024; Ringle 2024; Twelve n.d.).

Read more: https://www.wri.org/research/united-states-should-not-turn-food-aviation-fuel

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 14d

Oof some folks only learning this 29 yrs too late… “R&D is something that cannot by any short-term measurement meet the test of the marketplace, the libertarians’ measure of all things.”

Reading this and thinking about the massive investments China made in early 00s and how that’s paying off now.

Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14d

À la fin des années 90, tandis que le monde s'ébaudissait de la Silicon Valley, Paulina Borsook fut l'une des rares voix à alerter sur le fond antidémocratique des libertariens de la tech. Il est grand temps de la relire.

www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16d

A look at India's $18.2B chipmaking push, with 10 projects across six states to cut import reliance, as experts question if talent and investment are enough (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16d

"Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"

Get these to Kansas ASAP

Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 16d

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side

Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

techxplore.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17d

My last talk on Friday at the American Museum of Natural History will be live-streamed. Register to watch here! www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-ed...

A poster for the live stream event that says, "Watch Katharine Hayhoe's keynote live from the AMNH during Climate Week NYC!"

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 17d

But we should debate those bounds now, before heat waves, crop failures, or tipping-point fears goad governments into ill-considered action. The world stumbled into today’s accidental sulfur cooling without intention or oversight. We should not stumble into a replacement.

Revisiting the Geoengineering Question

We probably shouldn't do it, but if we do it we need narrow bounds

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 21d

The current largest installed wind turbine is 26MW (that's gigantic btw - it has a rotor diameter as wide as London's Shard is tall). But there are plenty of signs that we will see turbines significantly bigger than that fairly soon...

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Ultra-large 35MW offshore wind turbines envisaged in new tender

News comes just weeks after record-smashing 26MW wind turbine was installed in China, as analyst says turbines even of that size are 'unlikely to be the upper limit'

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 21d

“Most oil production in [US] comes from fast declining unconventional sources…Absent further capital investment…production declines – a 65% drop over the next decade.”

*570B USD in 2025 exp. Imagine how good the 🌎 utilization of energy could be without this heavily subsidized dino juice. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 21d

Many stats surprise me when it comes to the inherent inefficiencies in powering our economies with fossil fuels, but this one stopped me in my tracks:

"90% of all upstream investment is used to offset supply losses at existing fields"

Talk about good money after bad
www.iea.org/news/decline...

Declines in output from existing oil and gas fields have gathered speed, with implications for markets and energy security - News - IEA

Declines in output from existing oil and gas fields have gathered speed, with implications for markets and energy security - News from the International Energy Agency

www.iea.org

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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 24d

Solarcleano launches panel cleaning robot for large PV installations, trackers #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · 24d

I’ve got to run like a fugitive to save the life I live

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Iron Lion Zion

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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 24d

Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium & Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea? - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/09/05/h...

Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium & Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea? - CleanTechnica

The Salton Sea’s brines hold lithium and heat. CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen aims to tap both, but scaling DLE and shifting policy make the outcome uncertain.

cleantechnica.com

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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 28d

RE+ product launches: Canadian Solar low-carbon modules, FTC Solar new tracker, NovaSource’s AI-platform #energysky -- via pv-tech:

RE+ product launches: Canadian Solar low-carbon modules, FTC Solar new tracker, NovaSource's AI-platform

Many companies launched new solar products during RE+ 2025, in Las Vegas, including NovaSource, OMCO Solar, FTC Solar and Canadian Solar.

www.pv-tech.org

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 29d

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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ecovātiv ideas >> yr 2100 @ecovativeideas.bsky.social · Sep 8

I knew that psychrometric chart was just two graphs that should’ve stayed apart!

John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

Some updates on Blue Frontier's promising air conditioning technology. This uses liquid dessicants as a form of energy storage, separating the dehumidification and cooling processes, and allowing for the energy intensive portion of dehumidification to be done off-peak.

Cooler Buildings, Stronger Grid: A New Approach to Air Conditioning With Built-In Energy Storage | NREL

www.nrel.gov

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